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As you may have
heard,
at the end of 2015 the
Dewar Wildlife Trust donated the facility that it built in
North Georgia to a new organization: Project Chimps. Project Chimps
purchased the 100 acres on which the facility was located, as well
as adjacent 86 and 50 acre parcels for its project to retire some 220+
chimpanzees
presently housed at the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in Louisiana.

There
were several
reasons for this change of direction.

The
Dewar Wildlife Facility only housed a few gorillas following its
construction (which started in 1997) and as time went on, it became
clear that it would never be fully utilized if the facility were solely
devoted to housing gorillas because of changes in the Gorilla Species Survival Plan
(SSP) management plan. The SSP in conjunction with the AZA
developed a plan for socially housing gorillas that significantly
reduced the need for a facility like the one operated by the Dewar
Wildlife Trust. Their efforts
made it possible
to largely resolve space issues in those Zoos that managed gorillas.
With the
need for a facility just to house gorillas greatly reduced, and
following the unexpected passing of JoBeth Dewar in early 2015,
it made sense to chart a new future for the facility itself with a
different
organization.

Dewar
Wildlife had been in negotiations for some time
with Zoo Atlanta which had expressed an interest in the facility and
property. During that time, Dewar Wildlife was home to two of Zoo
Atlanta's gorillas. However, Zoo Atlanta decided not to proceed with
the acquisition and the two gorillas were returned to Zoo Atlanta in
June of 2014.

A
year later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled that all
chimpanzees, both captive and wild, were to be afforded the protection
of given to an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). That
step
ended the use of chimpanzees for research, and so the need to retire
all those chimpanzees in research facilities to sanctuary settings
suddenly intensified. With that ruling in mind, Dewar Wildlife was
contacted by Project Chimps to ascertain the possibility of using the
North Georgia facility as a home for chimpanzees being retired from
medical research facilities. In December 2015, Dewar Wildlife donated
its facility to Project Chimps and Project Chimps purchased the land on
which the facility was located. In May of 2016, Project Chimps
announced an agreement with Louisiana State University (LSU) to provide
sanctuary for and house the 220 chimpanzees at LSU's New Iberia
Research facility at the North Georgia facility. The first two groups
of
retired chimpanzees arrived at the facility in 2016 and the remainder
of the chimpanzees will be transported to the facility over the coming
years.

Was the
shooting of Harambe the right decision? A personal editorial...

There
has been a flurry of controversy over the decision of the Cincinnati
Zoo to shoot Harambe when a three-year old child fell into the gorilla
exhibit.

Let's
say at the outset that there's much information
about this incident that remains to be gathered and that many people
have been very quick in forming their own personal opinions. And any
way you look at this event, it was a tragedy as Harambe, who suffered
the most was also surely the one least responsible for the situation.

The Dewar
Wildlife Facility
was certified by the AZA (Association of Zoos & Aquariums) as a
related facility in 2005, and was re-certified in September of 2010
through 2015.

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